skeptical - Story 133838 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The bank statement lay on the table, a stark white rectangle on a mahogany surface. The numbers screamed out, a testament to a life separate from the one he shared with his wife, Karen. It was a separate world, a world he hadn’t been invited into. He picked up the statement; his fingers tracing the bold figures. He felt a creeping discomfort.

He found himself scrutinizing Karen, watching her movements, her expressions. He heard her laugh, a sound that now felt slightly artificial, as though it didn't quite reach her eyes.

He began to question everything.

Emotion: skeptical

Cluster: Suspicion / Vigilance

PC1 (Valence): -0.02 Negative

PC2 (Disposition): 1.45

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion skeptical. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 skeptical stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the skeptical emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the skeptical vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`de`	0.468
`que`	0.396
`la`	0.346
`a`	0.333
`🧐`	0.327

Suppressed:

`再び`	-0.304
`终于`	-0.299
`再次`	-0.270
`終於`	-0.263
`momentarily`	-0.255